But director Mark Andrews says the biggest star of the movie will be Scotland itself.....

...Mark said: "We spent a lot of time getting the research right. We have a midge in the film because everybody knows the midges in Scotland and we had to have one in there. "The accents were also a huge deal for us, and the way your mouth moves when speaking with a Scottish accent is quite unique so we had a linguistics expert come in and work with our team. We also got lots of help from the Scottish cast.

"We realised Scotland is so lush and so textured and everything is weathered and there's a history and a veneer on everything.

" We couldn't downplay that or come up with some simple graphic design that would come even remotely close....

...Mark said: "It's all about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and how this young woman has problems with her mother.

"When she has a problem with her mother over marriage, she gets a magic spell to try to stop her mother bothering her with the suitor business.

"But it actually changes her mother into a bear."...

...Mark added: "The performances the actors bring to the part will definitely make it into the characters. You will see Billy Connolly in Fergus, Craig Ferguson in Lord Macintosh and Kevin McKidd in Lord MacGuffin. And Kelly is definitely in Merida.

"You will definitely see all their qualities, just not their faces."...

Change is inevitable no matter how much we try to avoid it. And as frightening as change might be it also provides some of the greatest rewards we’re likely to find in this life. It’s the journey to that change, how we step into it, and who goes along with us for the ride which shows us how we can become more than we ever thought we’d want to be. As the staff of Seattle Grace/Mercy West discovered after facing a grieving widower with both a gun and a grudge at the end of season six. Besides the obvious up close and personal view they got of their own and each other’s mortality, they also uncovered a deeper understanding of their paths through life.

While metal detectors and guards were installed at all hospital entrances, the surgical staff discovered such changes to their physical environment had little impact upon their internal sense of security. Some staff found renewed purpose in the face of the crisis, like Owen Hunt, who found clarity in his heart and renewed professional purpose which enabled him to step into both proposing to Cristina Yang and also becoming a more clearly defined hospital leader.

Being able to draw upon his wartime experiences when it came to both standing by Cristina during the shooting and also afterward in her healing process, Owen grew into a more tempered version of the man we’d first met home on leave from the army. He best expressed his growing professional confidence and vision in appealing to Chief Webber to offer emergency preparedness training to hospital staff to help them better act in the face of such tragedies.

Charles Percy had a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Miranda Bailey did everything she was trained to do. She gave him fluids, controlled the bleeding, applied pressure. Then she tried to get him to an OR, but she couldn’t. So he died… And she’ll remember him dying in her arms the rest of her life. And I’ll remember… And you’ll remember that we could’ve saved him. We failed her. And we failed Charles Percy, one of our own doctors. I can’t face that… I can’t face that ever again. Can you?

At the same time as Owen regained his confidence, Cristina became ever more vulnerable. She was afraid in her own skin, moving outside her usual bravado to admit her deepest abandonment fears but also keeping from herself and everyone else, including Owen, how deeply the shooting had impacted her. She stepped into planning their wedding quite energetically, regaining some of her usual sass in the process, calling the tradition of brides wearing white ‘sexist and vaguely racist,’ while Owen was simply giddy with delight at the idea of marrying Cristina and formalizing their life together. And yet we all knew it wasn’t going to be easy for these two strong personalities to step into marriage, to which Meredith’s voiceover attested in the episode that celebrated their wedding.

When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science… It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. ... Change is constant. How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.

Partners for Pediatric Progress is a project that began as part of an initiative within theProgram in Global Health via the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Their goal isto make a global network of relationships so that there can be an exchange of trainingsupport and clinical experience for those participating. In 2008, the Facultad de MedicinaUniversidade Eduardo Mondlane (EUM), at the Central Hospital of Maputo in Mozambiquebecame the first partnership.

Mozambique has high numbers of individuals under the age of 18 that suffer from fatalneonatal conditions and high mortality rates, thus creating an urgent need for a programlike Partners for Pediatric Progress. With less than 20 pediatricians in the country itself,there are no specialty trained pediatric surgeons and specialists to choose from. Partnersfor Pediatric Progress conducted various surveys of the level of need for the area. Theorganization is committed to sending the required number of medical specialists rangingfrom pediatricians to surgeons to Maputo to assist in training and working with othermedical staff who are established there.

Write up on Partners for Pediatric Progress (p3) compiled by Maya from documentation provided by Dr Todd Lee Millerhttp://www.p3project.org/

Follow Kevin's Updates as they come through via @KmcKonlinethanks to Betinad for this link ~ For more information on the plight of children in Mozambique view the UNICEF site

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